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Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts

By : Andrew Jones
Book Image

Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts

By: Andrew Jones

Overview of this book

Despite the passage of time and the evolution of technology and architecture, the challenges we face in building data platforms persist. Our data often remains unreliable, lacks trust, and fails to deliver the promised value. With Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts, you’ll discover the potential of data contracts to transform how you build your data platforms, finally overcoming these enduring problems. You’ll learn how establishing contracts as the interface allows you to explicitly assign responsibility and accountability of the data to those who know it best—the data generators—and give them the autonomy to generate and manage data as required. The book will show you how data contracts ensure that consumers get quality data with clearly defined expectations, enabling them to build on that data with confidence to deliver valuable analytics, performant ML models, and trusted data-driven products. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of how data contracts can revolutionize your organization’s data culture and provide a competitive advantage by unlocking the real value within your data.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Part 1: Why Data Contracts?
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Part 2: Driving Data Culture Change with Data Contracts
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Part 3: Designing and Implementing a Data Architecture Based on Data Contracts

How to Get Adoption in Your Organization

Now that we have a good understanding of what data contracts are and how they can help solve the data problems we have in our organizations, let’s look at how we can get started on the journey toward implementing and deploying data contracts.

What we’ll find is that while data contracts are a technical architecture supported by our tooling, they’re also our vessel for changing the data culture in our organizations. We are moving away from data as a side product and instead applying more discipline to how we generate our data in order to meet the requirements of our data consumers. And we’re doing that because we understand the value our organization can get from its data, and how that will lead to better outcomes for the business.

Changing the data culture is not easy but is essential for the successful adoption of data contracts. Throughout this chapter, we’ll be discussing how to approach this culture...